Is it okay to eat hawthorn for health maintenance during the heavy snow?

　　Hawthorn is also called red fruit, mountain red fruit, and rouge fruit. It has a cultivation history of more than 3,000 years in my country. According to China disease The latest measurement by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety of the Center for Prevention and Control shows that hawthorn is rich in a variety of nutrients, which can improve the body's immunity and enhance physical fitness. Eating hawthorn regularly will have certain anti-aging, beautifying, anti-cancer and prevent atherosclerosis effects. When the cold "heavy snow" season arrives, it is a very good choice to eat some delicious and nutritious hawthorn and let it help us regulate our bodies.

　　Every 100 grams of hawthorn pulp contains 3.1 grams of dietary fiber. As the saying goes: "If you want to live forever, your intestines must always be clear." Dietary fiber is the body's "intestinal scavenger". Sufficient dietary fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis and secretion of digestive glands, facilitate intestinal digestion and waste excretion, and promote material metabolism in the body. Pectin has the effect of lowering cholesterol and blood sugar and preventing the formation of gallstones.

　　Hawthorn also contains a variety of active substances, such as triterpenes and flavonoids, which can dilate blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow, improve heart activity, soften blood vessels, and reduce blood pressure and cholesterol.

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn tastes sour and sweet, and is slightly warm in nature. It can increase appetite, aid digestion, break blood stasis, and stop diarrhea and dysentery.

　　In addition to being eaten raw or made into snack foods such as preserved fruits, hawthorn cakes, cans, and candied haws, hawthorn can also be made into delicious dishes. Such as hawthorn shredded pork, snack fillings, hawthorn cakes, etc. It can also be dried into hawthorn slices and boiled in water for drinking, which has a good effect of moisturizing and promoting body fluids.

　　Although hawthorn is a nutritional supplement, the more the better. Eating too much hawthorn will damage the Qi. Therefore, people with insufficient Qi, especially those who consume Qi-tonifying medicines such as ginseng, should be careful. Hawthorn tastes sour, so you should rinse your mouth promptly after eating it to prevent damage to your teeth.